Dimensionality reduction method applied to the deformed coupled cluster ab initio many-body method

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The French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA) is a key player in research, development and innovation in four main areas :
• defence and security,
• nuclear energy (fission and fusion),
• technological research for industry,
• fundamental research in the physical sciences and life sciences.

Drawing on its widely acknowledged expertise, and thanks to its 16000 technicians, engineers, researchers and staff, the CEA actively participates in collaborative projects with a large number of academic and industrial partners.

The CEA is established in ten centers spread throughout France
  

Reference

SL-DRF-26-0219  

Direction

DRF

Thesis topic details

Category

Corpuscular physics and outer space

Thesis topics

Dimensionality reduction method applied to the deformed coupled cluster ab initio many-body method

Contract

Thèse

Job description

The theoretical description from first principles, i.e. in a so-called ab initio manner, of atomic nuclei containing more than 12 nucleons has only recently become possible thanks to the crucial developments in many-body theory and the availability of increasingly powerful high-performance computers. These ab initio techniques are successfully applied to study the structure of nuclei, starting from the lightest isotopes and now reaching all medium-mass nuclei containing up to about 80 nucleons. The extension to even heavier systems requires decisive advances in terms of storage cost and computation time induced by available many-body methods. In this context, the objective of the thesis is to develop the dimensionality reduction method based on the factorization of tensors involved in the non-perturbative many-body theory known as deformed coupled cluster (dCC). The proposed work will exploit the latest advances in nuclear theory, including the use of nuclear potentials from chiral effective field theory and renormalization group techniques, as well as high-performance computing resources and codes.

University / doctoral school

PHENIICS (PHENIICS)
Paris Sud

Thesis topic location

Site

Saclay

Requester

Position start date

01/10/2026

Person to be contacted by the applicant

DUGUET Thomas thomas.duguet@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU
CEA Saclay
DRF/IRFU/DPhN
Bat 703
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette
0169082338

Tutor / Responsible thesis director

DUGUET Thomas thomas.duguet@cea.fr
CEA
DRF/IRFU
CEA Saclay
DRF/IRFU/DPhN
Bat 703
91191 Gif-sur-Yvette
0169082338

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